【推荐1】When Elizabeth got married,it seemed as if her life would be    1    (comfort) and peaceful.However,she wasn't content    2    her easy life.She saw many poor people    3    (live) near her and she wanted to help them.

One day,she    4    (invite) to visit a prison.At first the prison officers did not want to let her visit the    5    (woman) prisoners because they feared the prisoners would attack her,    6    Elizabeth was not afraid.She realized that the prisoners behaved    7    (bad) because they were being treated like animals.They had terrible living conditions.So Elizabeth did her best    8    (provide) them with food and clean clothes.Her    9    (kind) helped her gain the friendship of the prisoners.Later Elizabeth was asked to go to the leaders of Britain to discuss    10    to improve the conditions for prisoners.She continued to help the poor prisoners till she passed away.

A young man, while traveling through a desert, came across a spring of clear water.    1    water was sweet. He filled his leather container so that he could bring some back to an elder    2    had been his teacher. After a four-day journey, the young man    3    ( present ) the water to the old man. His teacher took a deep drink, smiled    4    ( warm ), and thanked his student very much for the sweet water. The young man went home    5    a happy heart.

After the student left, the teacher let    6    student taste the water. He spat it out,    7    (say) it was awful. Apparently, it was no longer fresh because of the old leather container. He asked his teacher, "Sir, the water was awful. Why did you pretend to like    8    ?"

The teacher replied,“You tasted the water. I tasted the gift. The water was simply the container for an act of kindness and love. Nothing could be    9    (sweet).”

We understand this lesson best    10    we receive gifts of love from children. Whether it is a cheap pipe or a diamond necklace, the proper response is appreciation. We love the idea within the gift rather than the thing.

Recently, a little dog was playing out in its yard with its owner Henry    1    a baby koala jumped onto its back. The confused dog moved around, trying    2    (get) rid of the animal, which was holding tightly onto its fur. Every time it thought it was successful, the smart koala found a way to climb back on again.

The gentle dog    3     (eventual) managed to get rid of the koala by rolling on its back, at which point the koala ran back into the trees in search of    4     (it) real mom. Henry, who caught the entire scene on camera, says the koala, who lives in his backyard, is newly independent of its mother. He thinks it may have mistaken his friendly dog    5    its parent.

Though often    6     (refer) to as“bears", koala are not a member of the Ursidae (熊科)family to    7    conventional bears belong. Instead, the animals, which can     8    (find) in Australia, are similar to kangaroos. Koala babies, which are blind when born, spend the first six months of their lives inside their mother’s bags and the next six holding onto,their backs or bellies. The    9    (animal) depend only on leaves for their survival,    10     (consume) as much as 2.5 pounds a day.